How Green was My Valley

Joseph Meert

1905–1989

How Green was My Valley, circa 1940

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: wove paper; lithograph

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 225 x 343 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 320 x 487 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 8 7/8 x 13 1/2 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 12 5/8 x 19 3/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 20 x 25 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Gift of Steven Schmidt

Accession number: 2000.0002

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Exhibition Label: "Remembering the Family Farm: 150 Years of American Prints," 24-Mar-3-Je-2001, Steve Goddard Meert was born in Brussels, Belgium. He studied with Thomas Hart Benton at the Kansas City Art Institute, where he later taught. He was also active in Colorado Springs. Richard Llewellyn’s famous 1939 novel, How Green was my Valley, concerned a Welsh coal mining family; in 1941 the novel appeared as a movie, directed by John Ford. There seems to be little connection with Llewellyn’s narrative here. Meert may have wished to suggest a parallel between the miners’ conflict with the modern world, detailed in Llewellyn’s novel, and a similar conflict in the life of a Kansas farmer. (sources)